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Agreed.
Base 10 takes four bits just to record one digit. Since 4 bits can store 16 different states, this wastes space. Base 8 is more compact since you only need 3 bits per digit and every possible memory state is given a value.
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It seems to me that the scientific method is one of those ideas that, while best put to paper and formalized, is innate to the human mind. It's just applying cause and effect, which even the earliest cavemen understood...
Somewhat true... but you need reliable ways to get papers to other scholars, get adequate protocols and control groups, and above all a clear separation of fact and fiction. Ancient knowledge, while profound, was more metaphorical than factual. Take Atlantis in Plato's works: even now, scholars debate if he was talking about a (wrong) geographical theory, if he was just reporting legends of the time as a curiosity or if it was some kind of moral tale. Chances are Plato didn't really care, as long as the message got through.
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I'd consider that to be scientific infrastructure more than the scientific method, but you're definitely right that science nowadays is a whole different game than it was back then. To my understanding, scientists - before the Second Industrial Revolution, just about - were more hobbyists who occasionally got good enough results to capitalize on it.
I disagree, while science evolves all the time and gets better at what it does all the time, I find that you underestimate the science of ages past. And definatly the scientists of ages past.
Yes, I agree that science has certainly changed in the past few years.
Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets
It really is a crying shame and probably more common than we know. Greed runs rampant these days. This is why I have a lot less respect for "science" today than what I had in the past.
We should probably talk more about Stellaris, though.
Will we have product placement in the game? Will I suddenly become subliminally thirsty for a Coca Cola? Will we see Soylent Green Ads?
Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets
It really is a crying shame and probably more common than we know. Greed runs rampant these days. This is why I have a lot less respect for "science" today than what I had in the past.
We should probably talk more about Stellaris, though.
Will we have product placement in the game? Will I suddenly become subliminally thirsty for a Coca Cola? Will we see Soylent Green Ads?
Anecdotal fallacy. One case doesn't prove that it's happened more thna that one time and even less that it's common.
And just because I only have one documented case at my fingertips does not prove that I haven't heard of others in my 61 years of rambling around on this little mud ball. It only proves I'm too frikking lazy and got better things with my time than educate you.
Corporations and special interests funding "scientific" studies to improve their own bottom line is a pretty common practice, and one that's been well known for decades. It's why you should always look at who did a study when you read about one in the news.
Strange the anti-gmo crowd and the antivaxxers sound just like you, as do the climate change denialists. Again not doubting there ar emore than one but you canöt draw the conclusion that there is, or that itäs common, most certainly you can't draw the conlusion that people or science are bad as a general rule from it.And just because I only have one documented case at my fingertips does not prove that I haven't heard of others in my 61 years of rambling around on this little mud ball. It only proves I'm too frikking lazy and got better things with my time than educate you.
True but the number of reports that shows up as fakes are still a drop in the ocean or scientific reports produed. Sure there may be many not uncovered but usign this as the basis to say that people or science are bad is the anecdotal fallacy. If any of you want me to belive people are horrible then ou got to show me that over 50% of the world is nefarious and have commited those act with nefarious intent rather than just the best of intentions and being stupid, or even just negliance.
If you're trying to make me feel bad or shake my confidence, then you're failing miserably.
Science is simply not the god some of you believe it to be, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that.
I'm not anti-science, but I try to view with my normal healthy dose of skepticism since it's only fallible people recording, viewing and analyzing the data as well as drawing conclusions.
The laws of science are invariably defined by mathematics. Check it for yourself. But there is no law of climate change to be found. It is still an unproven theory. In fact, there are 7 theories regarding climate change, and the anthropogenic one is currently in dispute. There is no settled science here.
I don't go out of my way to avoid gmo, but I don't go looking for it either.
I am fully vaccinated, with another pneumonia shot due in 4 months.
I refuse to reply to you with the same disdain you show to others, although I will admit I just came this close.
Now, I will try one more time to get back to the game Stellaris before we get relegated to the vaporous world of the OT.
Ummm. I, for one, was really surprised that Paradox decided to develop a game of space opera.
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I see it's meant to be a joke but I have literally zero idea what this means... I don't watch many movies, so I'm missing a scene here. It definitely feels like a snippet from a movie though.Science is simply not the god some of you believe it to be, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that.
Moving along, I noticed some comments earlier saying cosmology doesn't mean astrology, if you don't say esoteric... Granted this is the hint that never made sense to me, I never made the connection that they were indeed switching up esoteric with physical.
Ah the moment someone compares science to religion, never been there before either...If you're trying to make me feel bad or shake my confidence, then you're failing miserably.
Science is simply not the god some of you believe it to be, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that.
I'm not anti-science, but I try to view with my normal healthy dose of skepticism since it's only fallible people recording, viewing and analyzing the data as well as drawing conclusions.
The laws of science are invariably defined by mathematics. Check it for yourself. But there is no law of climate change to be found. It is still an unproven theory. In fact, there are 7 theories regarding climate change, and the anthropogenic one is currently in dispute. There is no settled science here.
I don't go out of my way to avoid gmo, but I don't go looking for it either.
I am fully vaccinated, with another pneumonia shot due in 4 months.
I refuse to reply to you with the same disdain you show to others, although I will admit I just came this close.
Now, I will try one more time to get back to the game Stellaris before we get relegated to the vaporous world of the OT.
Ummm. I, for one, was really surprised that Paradox decided to develop a game of space opera.
It says something about the extent of the cliché of your argument when there's a ready made video repsonse.
And after reading your whole post I realised that you just denied climate change yeah this discussion is over on grounds that you cant argue with stupid.
As for what science and maths is you got it all wrong maths is a language, it's used to express science but it has no deeper significance. A theory in scientific terms is the closest thing to saying something is fact or proven, science however does not use those words, we use theory for what's proven as true as we can prove it and hypothesis for unpoven ideas and explanations. Yeah global warming is a theory and guess what so is gravity. Feel free to jump of a bridge because gravity is only a a theory. But if you're going to disregard scientific theories stick to the ones that will only get yourself killed.
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